The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-25
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.


Personal and Local.
j. Newhouse has been appointed agent OF the
G.. ST. L. & 2. at Woodstock. vice E. Martin re-
signed.
The rumor is again revived tina. the Pullman
and Wagner palace,car companies will consoli-
date in March. on basis to make Pullman
worth about $l75
Commissioner Blanchard of the Central Traf
fc Association, has given notice of a meeting of
Chicago, on Feb. 2
The Bee-line people will soon be in the market
for two hundred stock cars to be thirty four feet
IN length. Larger stock as we'll as merchandise
cars is the growing demand
The c.. H. & D. people have contracted with
eight new engines-fve of the mogui pattern
and three for switching service.
A. A. Jackson, late superintent of the Alle-
gheny Valley road. it is said, has been offered
and will probably accept the general manager
ship of the New York 6 New England road
K Spencer, in charge of the shops of the c.,
II. q d. at Hamilton, O., yesterday rendered his
resignation to go West to accept the position of
mastermeehanic of one of the Western lines.
The Island City Coal Company is now furnish
ing coal for the locomotives on the Chicago a
West Michigan, the western division of the Bal
road.
The Chicago ticket scaIpers are in trouble.
The Chicago roads, almost without excep-
ton, are giving them the cold shoulder. By the
by, where do the scalpers come in under the in
terstate-commerce bll9
The Central Traffic Association has discentin-
ued the weekly statement of east bound ton
mage, reported by the Board of Trade. Commits
sioner Blanchard states that the reports were in
accurate and misleading.
The late John Morley, of Baltimore, made the
first car wheels used on the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad and was passenger on the first car
that was run over the road In his boyhood he
witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry
by the British
G. w. Fairbanks. president of the Terre
Haute % Peoria road, states that this deal is in
no way In the interest of the l., b. d W., Meth
directly nor indirectly; that the organizations
! are as distinct as those of the New York Central
| and l., B. & w.
| The Pennsylvania people are by no means ~
ing on their oars in the territory they cover. Be-
| sides building the road from Red Bank to Rich
mond, Ind, they this season propose to build a
! branch of the Grand Rapids & Indiana from
| Portland to Wabash, Ind, distance Of seventy
| Eve miles.
| Now it is stated that the Missouri Pacific road
will build to Chicago if it cannot get satisfac-
| tory route on the Wabash. Chicago also be-
lieves that the Atchson extension will compel
Missouri Pacific to build to Chicago, aud that
there will be fight Southwest as now in the
Northwest.
Chairman Pugh. Of the railroad committee of
the indianapolis division of the Travellers Pro-
teetiye Association, has received notice that the
| Vandalia and Pittsburg q Lake Erie have
joined the Pennsylvania system and other roads
| in granting weekend tickets to holders of Trav-
elers' Protective Association membership cards.
i The track of the Indiana Midland road be
tween Anderson and Lebanon, Ind, was com.
pleted yesterday and construction train ran
over it for the first time. Regular trains will be
put on about Feb. TO- The company is having
some trouble with one Of their bridges. AS soon
as this is repaired the road entire will be opened
for traffic. i
The Railroad Gazette says there were so pei
cent fewer accidents from broken rails in the
7 year 1886 than in 1885. Prospects are that the
accidents from this source will be greatly re.
duced the present year, as but few have &C
Cured from this cause thus far this winter.
which indicates that the physical condition OF
railroads is steadily being improved.
With the coming in of 1887 there is a strons
movement among railroad officials to clear th,
decks OF employees who use intoxicating liquors
when off duty. On q mum Der o
roads strict temperance regulations have beer
issupd. Empty wine bottles thrown out Of di
rectors cars, however, do much to neutraliz
any teeiotal movement among the employees.
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois continues
to show handsome earnings, and is highly
prospered in ali it's deals to advance the interests
of the company 1t is understood that a pei
cent semiannual dividend is soon to be de
| clared, and further advantageous arrangements
with connections, which will considerably in
crease the traffic of the road, are under negotia
ton.
) The Pennsylvania railroad contemplated
trying few miles of permanent way laid in tn,
present English fashion; bull-headed steel rails
with heavy castiron chairs, the ties beins
| spaced further apart than is usual here, only
} some two thousand being used per mile Th,
trial is likely to be interesting. especially i
steel ties on Mr.. Webbs plan are used on part o
the trial track
It is it intimated that when the reoreanizatio,
of the Indianapolis. Peru & Chicago Railroa,
Company is perfected there will be a number 0
important changes in the official roster. and tina
the traffic departments will be put in charge O
men who well understand the needs of the roa
and the advantages which can be derive,
through operating it independently and wher
its local traffic can be greatly increased.
Il N. ii. Swayne one of the leading attorneys il
the Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago reorganiza
, ton. Is In the city, also, E: II. Scott, genera
manager Of the property and trustee Of the bond
. holders. Mir. Swayne states that there still
some formalitiss to be gone through with be
fore the reorganization can be perfected, ant
probably the new company will not take con
troll of the road before the first Of next month
railroad official who seems to attach NOR,
importance to the interstase-commerce bill thai
do a majority of the railroad officials, says TIN
: bill will cut down the employees in railroad serv
ice 81 per cent. AS it means the closing Of al
pool Offices outside ticket Offices, stops the run
ming of astfreight lines and to cap ALL the pay
ment OF commissions AS the road with which b
Is connected secures large per cent of its bus
ness through the payment of commissions hi
views regarding the bill may have some weight
In commenting on the interstate-commercl
bill the Springfield Republican apty says
{ american railroads have been run too much a
though it were our chief anxiety to get food t
t Europe to feed our competitors in leading In
dustres as cheaply as possible. We believe a
American IS entitled to his food as cheap as
European over the same American railroad, an,
that New Highlander needs cheap rates to hi